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Nationalism and Classicism

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  • © 1998

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  1. Athena S. Leoussi

    1. University of Reading, UK

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Table of contents (10 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxiii
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  2. Physical Anthropology and Ethnographic Art

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Physical Anthropology and the Greek Ideal

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      Pages 3-24

    3. Positivism and Realist Aesthetics

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      Pages 25-34

    4. The Making of the Artist-Anthropologist

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      Pages 35-55

    5. Hellenism and Ethnographic Art

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      Pages 56-84

  3. Physical Anthropology, Religion and Nationalism

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 85-85
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    2. The Greek Body and Christian Thought

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      Pages 87-107

    3. The National Significance of Physical Anthropology

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      Pages 108-130

  4. The Classical Revival in English and French Art

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      Pages 131-131
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    2. Images of Greeks as Images of God

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      Pages 133-156

    3. Images of Greece as Images of England

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      Pages 157-179

    4. Images of Greece as Images of France

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      Pages 180-199

    5. Conclusion

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      Pages 200-202

  5. Back Matter

    Pages 203-260
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This is a comparative study of the national significance of the classical revival which marked English and French art during the second half of the nineteenth century. It argues that the main focus of artists' interest in classical Greece, was the body of the Greek athlete. It explains this interest, first, by artists' contact with the art of Pheidias and Polycletus which portrayed it; and second, by the claim, made by physical anthropologists, that the classical body typified the race of the European nations.

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  • University of Reading, UK

    Athena S. Leoussi

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